Article-holding means



Patented F eb. 24, 1925.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTICLE-HOLDING lMEANS.

Application filed November 12, 1923. Serial No. 674,296.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, BERTPAM MORDAUNT CHAMBERS, of 59 Cadogan Square, London WT., England, a subject of the King of Great Britain, have invented a new Article-Hold ing Means (for which I have filed applications in Great Britain No. 31,000 filed the 13th November, 1922, and No. 20,364 filed the 10th of August, 1923), of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to an article holding means or device for securing in position bedclothes, or for attaching an object such as a label or plaque to cloth or the like, or for any similar purpose for which a separable button may be used. For example, in one form it is particularly suitable for retaining a quilt eiderdown on a bed which otherwise, and especially if of silk or satin, might readily be displaced by the occupant. In a modification, the device may be combined with an ornamental display portion which might bear, for example, advertising matter, sale prices or descriptive matter. The invention might also be used for securing a card or similar object to cloth or in a simple form may be used as a badge, souvenir button or the like. If the device is to be used as a label, the display surface may be a removable slip of paper or cardboard or of material on which chalk or like marks may be inscribed and afterwards erased.

According to this invention, a small hooklike wire member is provided, which is so formed as to enter cloth or the like upon being slightly pressed thereon and partially rotated. This member comprises preferably a length of stiff wire bent so as to form two arcuate barbs with points, approxi mately concentric and each with a slight helical inclination so as to present the points downwards. More than one pair of such points may be provided by a suitable arrangement of the pieces of wire. InV order to facilitate the retention of the points in the material, they may be made with a partially spiral, as well as slightly helical, bend, or they may be suitably crimped or kinked. The cloth-engaging member is, according to the invention, fitted with a head which may conveniently be simply a disclike member, easily formed by pressing and which may be of ornamental colour 0r design or the surface of which may be'the display surface above referred to. This head is attached to the cloth-engaging meniber, through the medium of a socket attached to the head being engaged by an elongated and upwardly projecting loop formed by the wire. The head thus resembles the larger member of a well-known type of'two-piece collar stud. In this ease, a small disc of metal with a central aperture may be fitted to the cloth-engaging portion to limit the depth to which the barbs may enter the cloth and partially to secure the device by a jamming or wedging act-ion which will be made clear later. The invention will be better understoodV with reference to the drawings herewith, in which details of construction and different types are shown.

Fig. -1 is a perspective view of the invention. F ig. 2 is a side elevation partly in section and Figs. 3 and 4 are sectional views showing the method of construction of the headportion of the device.

In Figs. 1, 2, 3 and 4 is shown a head member 1, directly attached to the clothengaging hooks.V The method of attachment of Fig. 1, is illustrated in Fig. 2. The head 1 is formed in the manner of many small vanity mirrors etc., namely, of two pieces, an outer shell 1a having its edges 1b pressed over the edge of a metal or similar disc 1. The cloth-engaging member in Figs. 1 and 2 comprises a length of wire 2 bent upon the inside face of the back of the head member as is illustrated more parv ticularly in Fig. 2 by dotted lines, and having its ends projecting through the back and formed into radially and downwardly projecting hooklike portions with arcuate and slightly helical pointed ends 2a. The formation of the length of wire 2, shown in dotted line, lies within the head, the wire passing through an approximately central hole 3 and thus the cloth-engaging portion is more or less permanently a part of the device in this form. The hole 3 may be in the part la or 1c according to whether the flat or slightly convex side of the head 1 is desired to be the display surface. It will be understood that this form of the invention finds its main application as a label or badge and that a price or other matter is in such a case suitably applied to the display surface of the head 1. Fig. 3 shows a modication in which the length of wire 2 is of simpler form, two holes 3a being provided through which it passes, and two simple arcuate barbs 2b are prorided. In Fig. 4, two pieces of wire 2 are employed, forming tour barbs 2 which may be shorter than the barbs 2b, for example, and yet secure the head l just as lirnily. It will be realized that the forms described in connection with Figs. l, 2, 3 and t are all intended simply as a label or ticket. The device is applied simply by placing` the points against the cloth to which it is desired to secure it, and partially rota-ting. The head l Ais again provided constructed as previously described but to this head is secured a short and somewhat tiattened tubular socket i with preferably a slightiy constricted open end et, T he cloth-engaging member is a length oit wire bent to 'form an elongated loop 5, the wire further being bent to form a slight constriction 5 ot the loop and then to 'form two material-engaging arcuate and partially helical barbs 5". i small metallic disc (i with a central aperture is applied to the eonstricted portion 5 ot the loop. Thus, when the device assenibled as shown in Fig. l .is pressed and partially rotated against the material to be engaged, the points 5b enter the material anda portion oi the latter becomes jammed or wedged between the points 5 and the disc 6. The points 5 are preferably termed with fairly sharply angular elbows 5C which assist in preventing the accidental withdrawal oft the device from the material to which it is affixed. rlhis torni ot' the invention is intended to be used primarily7 in securing an ei'derdown to the bedclothes beneath, and this is achieved by the socket 4ibeing' inserted through a hole in the quilting and being pressed into engagement with the portion 5 when, upon partial. rotation of the head l, the device n'ray be .made to `engage the cloth underneath. The socket 41 may be secured (referring to Figs. 3 and L) either to the portion la or lc according to whether the upper or lower surface ot the disc is desired to be visible. VIt will be recognized that this form o't' the device may equally be used tor securing cards or papers to cloth, or for other purposes the socket i simply being pr gsed through the paper or through a hole termed therein. it will be realized that certain modifications may be made.

l. Article holding means consisting ot a head member, a hollow attened tube fixed thereon, and a piece ot wire bent into an elongated loop adapted to enter said tube. the external ends of said wire being bent to form a pair et arcuate and slightly helical barbs.

2. A. device comprising a head 'formed oil two pieces, viz, an outer shell and a disc connected therewith in combination with a hollow 'lattened tube lixed on said disc, and a piece of wire bent into au elongated loop adapted to enter said tube, the external ends of said wire being bent to term a pair of arcuate and slightly helical barbs.

BERTRAIVI, MRDAUNT CHAMBERS. 

